Month: March 2019

Wind Monument

It’s very windy in Patagonia.

Here’s what happens when you hang from a flag pole in Puerto Natales, Chile.

This sculpture is at the skateboard park.

Zach Blakely’s enthusiastic interview

Many athletes are guarded and predictable when interviewed.

Then there’s Zach Blakely after winning a medal at Canada Winter Games.

The competition was hosted in Alberta so Zach’s friends, family and grade school teacher were able to attend in person.

Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.

Alice Kinsella 2017

Heart this on Twitter.

Patti Rope – 1976 Bars

Patti was coached by her parents, Don and Benita Rope. In 1972 they founded Cambridge Kips Gymnastics Club.

In February of 1976, with the Olympics approaching, the Romanian team, including Nadia Comenici, stayed in Cambridge to train with the Kips for a week at Glenview Park S.S. The culmination of the week was a two-day Canada-Romania meet, hosted by the Kips at the Kitchener Auditorium. It was at that meet that Nadia received the first perfect 10, a benchmark for what was to come at the Olympics not long afterward.

At Montreal two Russian gymnasts approached Patti asking if she could help them get their ears pierced. They all piled into the Rope van and went downtown. The two Russians? Nelli Kim, and a young girl by the name of Elvira Saadi, destined one day to become coach of the Kips and of Canadian champion Yvonne Tousek.

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via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics

Rope finished 27th at Montreal, the highest-ever placing at an Olympics by a Canadian female gymnast at the time …

Cambridge Sports Hall of Fame

Gymnastics foam pit rescue

Do your Emergency Services know how to deal with a gymnast injured in a foam pit?

Thanks Avril.

introducing Pommel Mushroom

Before gymnasts begin Circles on Mushroom they need to train Front Support positions. A bucket is ideal.

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Thanks Bermuda Gymnastics Association.